DecayWTF

Gay Eminem on 9/11

@DecayWTF

oh god how did this get here i am not good with computer

 


 

Background music:
Click here because I can't put an audio widget in the profile

 

The scenes with the shark are usually very intense and disturbing.

 

I use Arch BTW

 

Fun fact: Neo-Nazi dipshit cartoonist Stonetoss is in fact Hans Kristian Graebener of Spring, Texas

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DecayWTF
@DecayWTF
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atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

the cohost of operating systems

atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

my point here is that this doesn't exist yet. you have to build it yourself to be good; you can't make the cohost of x out of an existing x

edit: turns out haiku is pretty fuckin cool though

DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

Requirements

  • Highly portable, core system written in modern language(s)
  • Targeted at desktop use
    • GUI and command-line both available, system boots directly to graphics mode except possibly for rescue/safe mode cases
  • Pervasive case-insensitivity
  • Versioning FS
  • System configurations all in plain text files
    • All configurations are available both through hand-hacking config files and through UI
  • Async and memory-mapped IO as OS-level IO models
    • Network IO available through all standard file functions as well as through socket interface, ie you can open a URL as a file transparently
    • Modern encryption as part of base system
  • Shared memory pages as primary IPC mechanism
  • Message-driven by default
  • Modern VM hypervisor in base system
    • First-class emulation framework integrated with the hypervisor system so that system emulators can be built that can be treated transparently as VMMs
  • Versioned release model for production releases, rolling for dev branch
  • Core utils include all compilers required to rebuild the world
  • AGPLv3 for all kernel and new system utilities

Anti-requirements

  • No DRM, phone home nonsense, user tracking or ads in the base OS
  • POSIX compliance in the base OS (supported via compatibility library)
  • Windows compatibility in the base OS (as above, via Wine port)
  • Microkernel
  • Any C or C++ code in the base system
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